Re: Virtualize a Debian system within Manjaro

[john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com>]

On 6/2/2020 6:14 AM, Victor Sudakov wrote:
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> There is an office where the standard desktop OS is Manjaro (a
> clone of Arch Linux). There is not much choice actually.
>
> I don't very much like Manjaro's packaging system and its lack of many
> essential packages in binary format. When I need something as simple as
> codesearch or apg or dateutils, it tries to compile them.
>
> Willing to run a Debian instance within Manjaro, what's my best choice?
>
> The easiest thing that comes to mind is installing VirtualBox in
> Manjaro, but are there less resource-intensive and GUI-dependent
> options? Maybe some kind of chroot or container?

Qemu preferably with KVM works well with Debian in a VM without a GUI.

Chroot/container/VM are not the same, which one you pick depend on what
you want to do with that Debian.

See also Libvirt to manage your container/VMs.

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John Doe